My friend, Professor Robert S.Fletcher, Librarian of Amherst College, has often sent me volumes from that excellent store of books.

My sister, Professor Winifred Smith, of Vassar College, has added to many loving services, this: that during my four years at Poughkeepsie, I was enabled to use the Vassar library.

For her good offices, as well as for the kindness of the librarian, Miss Amy Reed, my thanks.

My father, the Rev.Dr.Henry Preserved Smith, professor and librarian at Union Theological Seminary, has often sent me rare books from that library; nor can I mention this, the least of his favors, without adding that I owe to him much both of the inspiration to follow and of the means to pursue a scholar's career.

My thanks are also due to the libraries of Columbia and Cornell for the use of books.